AT&T's international texting plan goes live
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 8th 2007 1:55PM
posted Jun 8th 2007 1:55PM
While we'd recommend just hoping on Skype to chat it up with your overseas pals whenever possible, we understand the occasional jam where only a text message will do. Apparently, AT&T also sees this opportunity, and is looking to make international texting a bit easier on the wallet by introducing the International Long Distance Text Messaging Package we had received wind of last month. The add-on package will run $9.99 per month and provides 100 messages to send out, meaning that if you fully utilize the offering you'll be looking at about $0.10 a pop. Unfortunately, picture and video messaging are still only available as pay-per-use luxuries, but we're sure an all inclusive option will pop up before too terribly long.
You can use Mobile Marketing Pro to send sms messages.
http://www.mobilemarketingpro.com
Most handsets nowadays can send email for free... I've been sending and receiving 'texts' with Japan since my Nokia 6160... and that was a loooooong time ago...
ya, find the *number*@*carrier*.com address, like 1231231234@vtext.com for Verizon, etc.
Not all carriers around the world have an e-mail address tied to the number for incoming SMS. This plan won't be for everyone. SMSBug is a cheap way to send SMS but they don't support all carriers.
In my case, AT&T would be the cheapest way to send an SMS to Mexico. I have yet to find a way to send them that does not involve a carrier. Verizon does actually allow these SMS to pull from your SMS bucket. T-Mobile charges $0.15 and I can call cheaper with T-Mobile than with Verizon. I could add this add-on to my work number and then text cheaper. The only problem is that Cingular doesn't allow you to track sent SMS as far as I know. So how will I know when I've used up my 100 messages... Hmm..